Re: Axis and JAX-RPC

[Frank]

Anne,     Thanks! Frank Anne Thomas Manes wrote: JAX-RPC is simply the programming API. JWSDP and Axis are SOAP implementations, and JAX-RPC is the API you use to invoke SOAP requests. There are lots of other JAX-RPC implementations. Every J2EE V1.4 compliant app service includes an implementation of JAX-RPC (WAS 6, WebLogic 8, Oracle 10g, JBoss, etc). In addition, Systinet and Cape Clear support JAX-RPC. Anne On 5/10/05, Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anne Thomas Manes wrote: JAX-RPC is the standard Java API for SOAP. (JAX-RPC is to SOAP as JDBC is to DBMS and as JMS is to MOM.) Most SOAP implementations for Java implement the JAX-RPC API -- including Axis. So Axis is sort of a layer of abstraction above using JAX-RPC alone? I assume your request for comparison is with Sun's reference implementation of JAX-RPC, which is distributed as part of Sun's Java Web Services Developer Pack (JWSDP). Yea you got it. That's what i have been looking at. Getting it to work was a little ugly. I, too, think that Axis is much easier to use than Sun's JWSDP. I suggest you start with the Axis documentation and the wiki. You can also find lots of tutorials for Axis using Google. Anne On 5/10/05, Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm still fairly new to Web Services and XML. Still trying to understand how to create a Web service using Java. It seems you have a number of options. I was first looking at doing it in JAX-RPC, java code simple for the most part but the buld.xlm was real fun to get to work fro even the hello world. Just found this Apache Axis, seems to be easier. Any one provide any advice etc on this, points to reviews/comparisons? Thanks, Frank